Catch-plate for shoe-clasps



(No Model.)

S. A. CHAPMAN.

GATGH PLATBI'OR SHOE GLASPS.

\ l 1%. 346,983. Patented'Aug. 10,1886.

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SAMUELA. CHAPMAN, OF \VATERBURY, ASSIGNOR TO J. C. HAMMOND, JR., OFROCKVILLE, AND T. E. KING, OF \VESTPORT, CONNECTICUT.

CATCH-PLATE FOR SHOE-CLASP'S.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 346,983, ated August10, 1886.

Application filed June 5, 1886. Serial No. 204,198. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SAMUEL A. CHAPMAN, of Waterbury, in the county ofNew Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and usefulImprovementsin Catch- Plates for Shoe-Clasps, of which the following isa full, clear, and exact description,whereby any one skilled in the artcan make and use the same.

My improvement relates more particularly to the class of shoe-claspsordinarily used on overshoes of the style called. arctics, on brogans,and on like articles of foot-wear.

The object of my improvement is to provide 1 a wire catch-plate ortake-up for use in shoeclasps; and to this end my improvement consistsin a take-up made of wire bent to and fro across the length of thedevice to form crosswise holding bars, the parts being held togetherbystraps or lengthwisestrips of metal folded upon or about them, as moreparticularl y hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of part of one formof myimprovement, showing the wire bent to form the crosswise holdingbars. Fig. 2 is a plan view of this wire frame with the metallic stripsor hem secured thereto. Fig. 3 is a view in cross-sec- 0 tion of thetake-up on the plane denoted by line a m of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a view inlongitudinal section of the takefup on the plane denoted by line y y ofFig. 2. Fig. 5 is a plan view of a modified form of my improvement, theframe being formed in this instance by inturned bends of the wire onopposite sides of the frame. Fig. 6 is a view in cross-section throughthe holding-strap of'the frame on plane denoted by line 00 w of Fig. 5.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter a denotes one form of myimproved catch-plate or take-up, in which form the strap-loop b and thecross bars 0 are formed by bending the wire, thatis of convenient sizeas to cross-sec- 5 tion and is preferably of iron, brass, or steel,

back and forth across the length of the plate, while the side parts (Z dof the frame of the take-up are composed of strips of thin metalarranged 'one on each side of and along the frame. These side parts (Id, or hems, as they may be termed, are made of comparatively narrowstrips of thin metal bent first to C shape, so that when either piece isslipped upon the edge of the take-up one branch of the hem lies alongthe edge upon the upper side of'the take-up and the other on the underside of the edge. By means of suitable tools, that are of ordinaryconstruction, this hem or binding-strip is closed down upon the frame,preferably so as to clasp the several cross-bars c and the bends betweenthem, as illustrated in sectional view in Fig. 4. The function of theseside parts is to give to the take-up a certain rigidity, strength, andpower to resist a pulling strain, such as would naturally result fromthe use of the take-up in a shoe -clasp where it and the tongue are fastto opposing parts of the shoe, and bring, when hooked together, alengthwise strain upon the take-up.

WVhen the take-up is made in the form above described, it is obviousthat the intervals between the cross-loars may be very small, limitedonly by the thickness of the tongue, and this forms one advantage of myimprovement. A further advantage is due to the fact that there is nowaste of metal in making such a take-up, the wire being preferably acontinuous piece, while the form of the side strips enables them to becut from sheets of metal with absolutely no waste, and this enables meto pro- 90 duce a very cheap device, as compared with sheet-metalcatch-plates or take-ups, in which the opening for the loop. and for theentrance of the tongue are formed by cutting out pieces of metal, thatare wasted, no less than forty per cent. of the metal in the latter casebeing wasted.

In-the modified form of my improved takeup shown in Figs. 5 and 6 theframe 6 is made of wire, with the cross-bars formed onehalf on theopposite sides of the center line of 0 the take-up by inturned bendsfrom the side parts 6' e of the frame. In order to give rigidity to thisframework, I make use of the clasps f, that are closed upon and bindfirmly together the adjacent ends of the loops g, that 9 5 are bentinward from the opposite sides of the frame. In this modified form of myimprovement the cross-bars cannot be arranged as near together as in theform first described; but it of wire, with the integral strap-100p atone end has the advantage of not requiring the side of the device, andcrosswise holding bars parts or hem necessary to the first form. formedof the back-and-forth bends of the wire I claim as my improvement acrossthe width of the frame. the edges of the i5 5 1. In a shoe-clasp, atake-up 0r catch-plate frame having the hem or stiffening strip of madeof wire, with crosswise holding bars sheet metal clasped upon the wire,all substanformed by bends in the wire, the bends being tially asdescribed.

held in place and made rigid by stiffening SAMUEL A. CHAPMAN. strips 01'bands of metal, all substantially as de- Witnesses: [O scribed. M. S.CROSBY,

2. Theimproved tak e-up 0r catch-plate made CHAS. W. GILLETTE.

